A transfer that PSV have not seen since the arrival of Mateja Kezman from Partizan Belgrade at the beginning of the 21st century has just been made official. Noa Lang arrived from Club Brugge for 13,000,000 euros and signed a five-year contract. If he fulfills the conditions needed for the bonuses to be met, he will remove the Serb from the top of the list of the most expensive purchases of the club from Eindhoven.Club Brugge managed to convince the Philips team to pay compensation equal to Lang’s market value, and it was clear from the start that the vice-champion of the Netherlands placed a risky bet because Lang has been rumored to be a mischievous, headstrong and hard-to-tame boy of Dutch football since his youngest days.On the football side, PSV got a lot of attacking qualities – dribbling, finishing, key passes, excellent breakaway… But on the other side, this is a guy who poorly fulfills defensive tasks. But even that is potentially not the biggest problem.🇳🇱🔴 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 | Noa Lang (24) has signed for PSV from Club Brugge! €15m fee, which is now a club record for the Dutch side. pic.twitter.com/a0MHWrvfvo— EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) July 8, 2023 Those arise when we scratch beneath the football surface and look back at the infamous anecdotes and rumors surrounding the 24-year-old, starting with the fact that, as a member of Ajax, he gave an ultimatum to the club “Dušan Tadić or me”. And so he ended his Amsterdam story. But Dutch journalists claim that it does not end there.”There is a certain history attached to the lad. He started in the youth ranks at Feyenoord and was the only one who turned up at training with an Ajax bag. It’s a rather questionable gesture. Also, we have photos from his time at Ajax of Ten Hag yelling at him to do his job,” said Telegraaf journalist Marcel Van Der Kraan.The established opinion of the journalists in the Netherlands is that there is always something controversial happening with Lang, unrelated to his sporting achievements.”The best players are often not always the easiest to work with, but I think Peter Bosz will have to make sure that Noa is in line. Not all clubs tolerate that kind of controversial behavior.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7361308##However, there are also those with an diferent opinion, who do not think that Lang’s character will hold PSV back, but that the club simply needs to accept it.”Lang is a great footballer, one of those whose goals and assists make you come to stadiums. I believe he will be even better in the Eredivisie than he was in Belgium. PSV will get the whole package, won’t they? They bring in a guy who truly believes in himself. There’s nothing wrong with that, because every team could use someone to bang their fist on the table when things don’t go according to plan. Therefore, PSV must not complain when Lang is not within the framework of expected behavior. They know what they are getting – a very high-quality, but headstrong footballer”, is the opinion of another Belgian journalist.A guy who was a member of Feyenoord from the age of six to 14, then was a member of Ajax’s academy for eight years, arrives at the Philips Stadium. At the age of 25, after 125 games his contribution tally is 38 goals and 34 assistss.He arrives at Philips Stadium with an instruction manual, and it is up to Peter Bosz how he will interpret that manual and whether he will be guided by it.🇳🇱 El @PSV ha fichado al extemo holandés Noa Lang (24 | #Brujas) por 13.000.000 €. Firma hasta junio de 2028. pic.twitter.com/6CtyTqlSdr— Mercatosphera (@mercatosphera) July 8, 2023
